Dashboard Favorites Manager

Compatible with Concrete CMS 9.2.0 and later

Current version: 1.2.1 (3rd July 2026)

Author: Digitmaster

Description

Dashboard Favorites Manager helps Concrete CMS users to manage the existing dashboard favorites menu, which is not directly editable in the default interface.

Features

Favorites management

• Dedicated dashboard page to manage Concrete CMS dashboard favorites
• Per-user favorites and settings
• Add or remove dashboard pages from favorites
• Reorder favorites with drag and drop on desktop
• Reorder favorites with up/down controls on smaller screens
• Bulk-remove favorites
• AJAX updates for favorite toggles, reordering, bulk removal, and toolbar/menu synchronization

Dashboard page search

• Live dashboard page search in both the manager and toolbar favorites menu
• Direct add/remove favorite actions from search results
• Dedicated links to open dashboard pages from search results
• Controls for ordering dashboard page search results
• Per-user setting to show or hide search in the toolbar favorites menu

Toolbar and favorites menu

• Optional toolbar star button for quick access to favorites
• Compact mobile favorites toolbar button
• Collapsible options panel for toolbar and menu settings
• Optional Concrete CMS version label in the toolbar
• Version label displayed inside the favorites menu on mobile devices
• Action links with play icons
• Safe dashboard-only favorite links in the toolbar menu
• Optional “Log out” action inside the toolbar favorites menu

Cache clearing and feedback

• Optional “Clear cache now!” action inside the toolbar favorites menu
• Background cache clearing with no redirect to the Clear Cache page
• Inline cache-clearing feedback inside the toolbar favorites menu
• Overlay and toast feedback messages for manager and toolbar actions

Import and export

• Export and import favorites to and from JSON
• Import results showing imported and skipped items

Reliability and interface

• Automatic repair of malformed dashboard favorite data where possible
• Responsive interface

Improvements in 1.2.0

• Improved dashboard page search ordering, highlighting, result counts, empty states, and error handling.
• Improved toolbar/menu search performance and shared search logic between manager and toolbar.
• Lazy-loaded manager dashboard page search data to reduce initial page load cost.
• Improved mobile usability of toolbar menu and favorites manager controls.
• Improved favorites table spacing, reorder behavior, and save-state protection.
• Improved import/export UX, validation feedback, and report presentation.
• Improved default toolbar option handling for installs and legacy upgrades.
• Improved safety of dashboard favorite links by filtering unsafe or non-navigable targets.
• Improved duplicate handling, favorite normalization, and malformed favorite repair.
• Improved styling consistency with the Concrete CMS dashboard UI.

Please write me a message to report any issues. I am happy to provide support.

Repo

https://github.com/concrete5-community/dashboard_favorites_manager